Ebooks
Major Collections
Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org
Project Gutenberg Australia http://gutenberg.net.au/
"Because of differences between Australian and United States (where Project Gutenberg is based) copyright law, Project Gutenberg Australia contains many works not available in Project Gutenberg, including works by Margaret Mitchell, George Orwell, Ayn Rand, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Wallace, S. S. Van Dine and Dylan Thomas."
World Digital Library https://www.wdl.org/en/
Europeana http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/texts
Wikisource https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
WikiBooks https://www.wikibooks.org/
Google Books https://books.google.com/
Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
Augustana https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html
Bibliotheca Latina, Graeca, Germanica, Anglica
The European library http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/
Read Print http://www.readprint.com/
Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com
A large collection of public domain books in several languages. Feedbooks also sells ebooks.
Spanish
Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics with notes and marginal glosses in English
http://www.linguatextltd.com/IMPRINT_eu ... rvnco.html
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
Biblioteca digital hispánica
http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/BibliotecaDigitalHispanica/Inicio/index.html
Antología del Ensayo
http://www.ensayistas.org/antologia/
French
The Molière & Co. French classics with vocabulary glosses
http://www.linguatextltd.com/IMPRINT_eu ... olnco.html
http://www.feedbooks.com
https://www.ebooksgratuits.com
ABU http://abu.cnam.fr/
Athena http://athena.unige.ch/athena/
Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Wikisource French https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Accueil
http://www.livrespourtous.com
http://www.livresnumeriquesgratuits.com
https://www.decitre.fr/ebook/bonnes-aff ... tuits.html
German
Gutenberg - DE: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/
Austrian Literature Online: http://www.literature.at/default.alo;jsessionid=BD5D56B08BF757EF8F88E9B1A3B8E891
Sophie - A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women http://sophie.byu.edu/
Die Deutsche Gedichtebibliothek: http://gedichte.xbib.de/
ngiyaw: https://www.ngiyaw-ebooks.org/
Zeno.org: http://www.zeno.org/
Wikisource German: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Hauptseite
Italian
Liber Liber http://www.liberliber.it/online/opere/libri/
http://www.classicistranieri.com/
Portuguese
http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/PesquisaObraForm.jsp
Latin
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman&redirect=truehttp://www.nodictionaries.com/
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/classics.html
http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html
http://www.intratext.com/8/LAT/Default.htm
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/index.html
http://www.nodictionaries.com/
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/la
Japanese
Aozora http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
Japanese Text Initiative http://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/
http://www.bauddha.net/
Croatian
Zbirka književnih djela na hrvatskome jeziku http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/infoz/dzs/popis.htm
Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević http://www.sskranjcevic.hr/uvod.ASP?PisID=1
Anagram http://www.hrvatskiplus.org/page.php?id=4
BEK http://elektronickeknjige.com/novi-naslovi/
Children's books
(Multilingual)
Children's books online
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org
Unite for Literacy http://www.uniteforliteracy.com
Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages.
International Children's Library
"The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community."
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
Storyweaver https://storyweaver.org.in
Toon book reader
Cartoon books with narration in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese
http://www.professorgarfield.org/toon_b ... index.html
Tools
Gutenberg Readability Search (paz) http://readability.mackayst.com/catalog?direction=ASC&sort=98p
Dual Language Book Generator https://dualbook-creator.herokuapp.com/
Interlinear texts: http://jsfiddle.net/okf06y8g/13/
Instructions: http://polydog.org/index.php?threads/create-interlinear-texts-easily.451/
Online bookstores and book search engines: http://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2904
Other Links
Farkastranslations free bilingual ebooks http://farkastranslations.com/bilingual_books.php
bilinguis http://bilinguis.com
Interactive stories in foreign languages https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =19&t=7880
Selecting extensive reading materials: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =14&t=2875
French and Spanish book recommendations: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =14&t=5894
Ebooks
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- Black Belt - 3rd Dan
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Re: Ebooks
The biblioteca augustana has historical texts in Latin, Greek, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and more. Many texts are also in the Old variants of these languages: https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html.
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- MorkTheFiddle
- Black Belt - 2nd Dan
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- Languages: English (N). Read (only) French and Spanish. Studying Ancient Greek. Studying a bit of Latin. Once studied Old Norse. Dabbled in Catalan, Provençal and Italian.
- Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 11#p133911
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Re: Ebooks
reineke wrote:Ebooks
Other Links
Farkastranslations free bilingual ebooks http://farkastranslations.com/bilingual_books.php
This today (7/22/2023) returns "Invalid Request."
Searching just the domain, farkastranslations.com, returns Under Construction, "Coming Soon. A new website is in the works." No indication of when that was first posted.
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Many things which are false are transmitted from book to book, and gain credit in the world. -- attributed to Samuel Johnson
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Re: Ebooks
Wakback machine shows that farkatranslation.com was unchanged up until March 2023, then changed to 'Coming Soon. A new website is in the works.' in the July 15 2023 snapshot.
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- Kamlari
- Orange Belt
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Re: Ebooks
Parallel texts. Russian-English.
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, etc.
https://studyenglishwords.com/browse
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, etc.
https://studyenglishwords.com/browse
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Frei lebt, wer sterben kann.
J'aime les nuages... les nuages qui passent...
雲は天才である
1. There’s only one rule to rule them all:
There are no Rule(r)s.
2. LISTEN L2, read L1. (Long texts)
3. Pronunciation.
4. Delayed recitation.
J'aime les nuages... les nuages qui passent...
雲は天才である
1. There’s only one rule to rule them all:
There are no Rule(r)s.
2. LISTEN L2, read L1. (Long texts)
3. Pronunciation.
4. Delayed recitation.
- Kamlari
- Orange Belt
- Posts: 224
- Joined: Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:36 pm
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Re: Ebooks
http://bilinguis.com/
WARNING
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Polish translation.
No diacritics.
Eg.:
- Nie moge sie wytlumaczyc - odrzekla Alicja - poniewaz, jak pan widzi, nie jestem soba.
Should be:
Nie mogę się wytłumaczyć - odrzekła Alicja - ponieważ, jak pan widzi, nie jestem sobą.
WARNING
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Polish translation.
No diacritics.
Eg.:
- Nie moge sie wytlumaczyc - odrzekla Alicja - poniewaz, jak pan widzi, nie jestem soba.
Should be:
Nie mogę się wytłumaczyć - odrzekła Alicja - ponieważ, jak pan widzi, nie jestem sobą.
0 x
Frei lebt, wer sterben kann.
J'aime les nuages... les nuages qui passent...
雲は天才である
1. There’s only one rule to rule them all:
There are no Rule(r)s.
2. LISTEN L2, read L1. (Long texts)
3. Pronunciation.
4. Delayed recitation.
J'aime les nuages... les nuages qui passent...
雲は天才である
1. There’s only one rule to rule them all:
There are no Rule(r)s.
2. LISTEN L2, read L1. (Long texts)
3. Pronunciation.
4. Delayed recitation.
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